What are the most popular baby names in Iowa?

9:03 AM,
Apr. 11, 2013

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If you're an Iowa kindergarten teacher, here are some of the names you'll most likely be calling on - a lot - within the next few years.

The U.S. Social Security Administration has released its rankings of the 100 most popular baby names for boys and girls born in 2011, the most recent year for which the data are available.

Boys named Carter and girls named Emma will have plenty of company in the classroom and on the playground. Those were the most popular names given to Iowa infants of each gender that year, the data show. ...